DemoTrans is an impact driven research project that provides policy recommendations with a focus on democratic governance, accountability & transparency

Joined September 2022
🚨🌎The world’s biggest suppliers of financial secrecy: 1 United States 2 Switzerland 3 Singapore 4 Hong Kong 5 Luxembourg 6 Germany 7 Netherlands 8 South Korea 9 Guernsey 10 Japan The top suppliers are shifting towards autocracy, #FSI2025 reveals. taxjustice.net/press/financi…
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🌍 @DemoTrans at #RSA2025 | Navigating Regional Transformation🇵🇹 This week, I’m proud to represent @DemoTrans at the @regstud Conference 2025 in #Porto, the RSA’s largest conference to date! 📻 Stay tuned for more updates from @DemoTrans Project: linkedin.com/feed/update/urn…
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Nice to see our work featured in @destandaard ! Our paper suggests that the rise of far-right parties in Flanders over the last decades correlates with migration inflows, regardless of economic conditions.
Vandaag in @destandaard: onze studie naar stemgedrag. 👉We verklaren de opgang (en neergang) van politieke partijen in de voorbije twee decennia op basis van harde cijfers. Met @Catalano_Lrnz test ik hoe het stemgedrag samengaat met schommelingen in economie en demografie.
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🚨EVENT | Workshop on Democracy and Capitalism Join us for a rich workshop offering new insights into the intricate relation between democracy and capitalism. 🗓14-15 March 2024 📍@FEBkuleuven & Online 🗣️Keynote Speech by @gebelque ℹ/Registration👇 feb.kuleuven.be/drc/LEER/dem…
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📢CALL FOR PAPERS for the VII International Conference “Social Boundaries of Work. Critical Labour Studies in the Times of a Polycrisis” in Wrocław, Poland, Oct 16-18, 2024. 🔴 Submit your papers by March 1 ‼️ 🔗 More information: inca-project.eu/event/call-f… #INCA #callforpapers
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📄 New Policy Brief | " Profit Shifting of MNCs in the 🇪🇺 and worldwide" 📕 Check our latest policy brief by @javiergb_com & @petr_jansky on the distributional consequences of profit shifting of MNCs. 👇🏽feb.kuleuven.be/drc/LEER/dem…. 🧵
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🚨 Don't miss our 2nd Online Workshop on Local Government Politics, tomorrow🕰️ 13:00 (CET)!!!
🖌 Register now for our Online #DemoTrans Workshop on "Local Government Politics: Fiscal Policy and Democracy". 📅 January 24, 2024 🕰️ 13:00 (CET) 📍 Online (Microsoft Teams) 📥 Registration here: feb.kuleuven.be/drc/LEER/dem… Follow the 🧶
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One of the best research collaborations in my life, with @javiergb_com & @TTorslov, thank you! Our 3rd paper was published yesterday in @PLOSONE, which started it all 5 years ago. June 2018 email subject: Effective tax rates - collaboration on research?. What a collaboration! 1/6
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🔎Research protects & nurtures democracy! How? ✔️Makes us understand challenges & tensions ✔️Provides paths to improve it ✔️Promotes respect of EU values 💡Discover how the @HorizonEU 2021 projects contribute to this goal👉 europa.eu/!fVv6Wx
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📣 Call for papers: 8th LEER Conference on Education Economics at @FEBkuleuven 👉Are you working on education economics? Join us on March 30-31, 2023 👉 Keynotes by @uZoelitz (Zurich), Rafael De Hoyos (@WorldBankECA) and @MatthewAKraft (Brown) 👉feb.kuleuven.be/LEER
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Our conference on Country-by-Country Reporting data and the newest research that uses it is now underway - tune in at corptax.cuni.cz/events/confe…
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When corporations and the superrich abuse tax, they deny millions of children their right to education. But what if we collected that tax instead? #LetMeLearn #TransformingEducation #TaxPaysForEducation
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